Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-19
Application tor q Patent.
Notice No. l44.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Boise City, Idaho, June FL, 1887.

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Boise City, Idaho, June 81, 1887.
Notice is hereby given that the Elmira
Silver Mining Company, by John Brown,
its President and General Manager, whose
post Office address IS Banner, Boise coun-
ty, Idaho Territory, has made application
for United States patent for the Banner
lode mining claim and mill site, situated
in Banner Mining District, Boise County,
Idaho Territory, consisting of fifteen hun
bred $500 linear feet Of the lode, and sur
face ground six hundred (600) feet wide,
being Lot No. 80 A and acres of non
mineral land not contiguous to said lode,
for mill site, being Lot No. 81 b, and
described In the field notes and plat of the
official survey on file in this office, with
magnetic variation at 10 degrees and 80
minutes East, as follows, in effect substan-
TALLY and correctly;
SAID mining claim commencing at the
stake or post on which is posted the no
tice of re. location, ut point 100 feet in
westerly direction from the shaft sunk on
said lode, known us tho old Banner shaft
or discovery shalt, and running thence in
an easterly direction 1900 feet to similar
stake or post on the line of said lode,
marked east Center Stake,n together
with 900 feet In width the entire length of
said claim, being 300 feet in width on each
side from the center or middle of said
lode at the surface. Said surface ground
being marked and described as follows, In
effect: Commencing at a point 1880 feet
from United States mineral monument
No. ], in direction north 81 degrees, 06
minutes east theretrom, the property be-
ing on unsurveyed land--being cor. No.
4 A
minutes east 600 feet to post marked
as. w, being cor, No. 3, and passing
through, at distance of 800 feet from the
original starting point, The west end CEN
ter post or stake ON which is posted the
original notice of relocation by the FL
mira Silver Mining Company, thence
north II degrees % minutes east, 1900 feet
TO a post marked IS. E." being cor. No.
3, thence north IA degrees Oh minutes
west, across the east end center post or
stake 600 feet TO post marked IN. E.
being cor. No. 4, thence south II degrees
| 80 minutes west 1900 feet to post mark
ed IN W." which is the place of begin
4 ming, containing an area of 20 59-l00
acres. This location also covers and in.
cludes what Is known as the Big Crop
pings, and said mine or Banner lode be.
| ing situated about thirty miles IN north
easterly direction from Idaho City, and
about one mile In northeasterly direc.
ton from the steam quartz mill owned by
the Elmira Silver Mining Company. AL
SO the Mill. SITE ON which stands the
| Banner mill, and known as the Banner
mill site, located in a triangular shape
Immediately above what was formerly
called Wolverine Gulcb, and Smiths
Fork, and between them, described as fol
l4.xu lfssrt Inn ut Int f..A
from United States mineral monument
No. /, in direction therefrom south 3.
deg. 81 minutes east, thence running south
% degrees, l6 minutes east, 514.5 feet To
post, cor. No. 4, thence north 50 degrees
03 minutes west 700 feet to a post at tn,
Junction of the right fork of Bear creel
with the main creek, cor. No. |, running
thence north 20 degrees 53 minutes cas-
440 feet to post cor. No. 2, thence nortl
81 degrees east 1855 feet to post, cor No
3, which is the place of beginning; EN-
braclng an area of five acres. The nortl
line of said mill site being 3,9507 feet dis
tant from the northwest corner, or col
No. of said Lot No. 81 A, the Banne
lode surface ground, in a direction sout
Sc degrees 10 minutes 80 seconds ives
therefrom; all corners of clam being a
so marked U. S. L. 80 A, and all corner
of mill site marked U. S. l.. 81 B. in add
ton to No. of corner.
4 The said mining claim and mill site b,
ing of record in the Office of the Count
Recorder of said mining district, at Idah
/: City, in Boise County, Idaho Territor,
The nearest known location being the 81
yer Chief lode or claim, which Joins I'll
!; SAID Banner lode and claim on the west
Any aud all persons claiming advcrsel
D. anv norton of the said RAINIER lode mi